It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

Clockwork Prince pg. 298 "Though rather despite myself, I thought him a pretty bit of poison to start with, but I have come around. There is a soul under all that bravado. And he is really alive, one of the most alive people I have ever met. When he feels something, it is as bright and sharp as lightning.

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. "Even the handsome ones." "One will do," said Magnus, and, as Will was no longer within his sight, he let the front door fall shut.

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.